[Met_help] building MET on Ubuntu 9.10

[John Halley Gotway]

Cory,

Thanks for sending these details.  I'm sorry to hear you had such a difficult time building MET on Ubuntu.  Can you please tell me the names and version numbers of the compilers you were using?

Thanks,
John Halley-Gotway
johnhg at ucar.edu

Cory Davis wrote:
> Hi there,
> I have had to make quite a few changes in order to compile MET v2.0 with 
> all patches METv2.0_patches_20091223.tar.gz on my Ubuntu 9.10 machines.
> 
> These changes include adding
> #include <cstdio>
> to
> ./lib/vx_cal/time_strings.cc
> ./lib/vx_econfig/machine.cc
> ./lib/vx_met_util/stat_hdr_columns.cc
> ./lib/vx_util/ascii_table.cc
> ./lib/vx_util/concat_string.cc
> ./lib/vx_util/string_fxns.cc
> ./lib/vx_util/threshold.cc
> 
> this is in order to have sprintf, fopen and fclose defined.
> 
> Also, the use of the strrchr function in
> ./lib/vx_met_util/file_type.cc, and
> ./lib/vx_met_util/stat_columns.cc
> is not quite right.  In C++ you are apprently allowed
> 
> const char * strrchr ( const char * str, int character );
>        char * strrchr (       char * str, int character );
> 
> and NOT
> char * strrchr ( const char * str, int character );
> 
> so to get around this I have done this
> ./lib/vx_met_util/file_type.cc:43
> if((ptr = (char *) strrchr(filename, '.')) != NULL) {
> 
> and
> ./lib/vx_met_util/stat_columns.cc:
> 
> ./lib/vx_met_util/file_type.cc
> line 44: if((ptr = (char *) strrchr(filename, '.')) != NULL) {
> const char * strrchr ( const char * str, int character );
>        char * strrchr (       char * str, int character );
> 
> ./lib/vx_met_util/stat_columns.cc:411
> if((ptr = (char *) strrchr(col_name, '_')) != NULL) i = atoi(++ptr);
> 
> Cheers,
> Cory
> 
>